Current patrons of the Young Musicians’ Bursary Fund

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The Young Musicians’ Bursary Fund (Y.M.B.F.) is a charitable fund established to provide educational and performance opportunities for young musicians. Those supported must live in Yorkshire and show exceptional artistic potential. Please note, all applicants are means tested to ensure Y.M.B.F. resources are allocated to those most in need. The fund was set up in 2014 by Mr. Samuel Moore (Director of Music, Arts@Trinity and Course Leader for Flamenco Guitar Studies, Instituto Cervantes) and currently receives patronage from: Councillor Michael Gibbons the Lord Mayor of Bradford 2014-15, Sir James Hill Bt OBE (W W Spooner Charitable Trust), Arts@Trinity, La Casita, Instituto Cervantes, Hobgoblin Music and many other generous individuals and organizations. Dr Anastasia Belina-Johnson, Assistant Head of Programmes at the Royal College of Music, is our advisory patron.

Despite the abundant musical talent in Yorkshire, educational and performance opportunities for many young musicians is limited. As a result, many young people demonstrating a strong aptitude in music in their early teens are unable to gain the experience of study and performance that will help them progress to higher education. Over the next three years the Y.M.B.F., with the help of its many donors, will provide educational and performance opportunities for at least one deserving young musician per year.

• Educational Opportunities: The Y.M.B.F. facilitates a wide range of educational opportunities for its beneficiaries.

These include music workshops, master classes and one-to-one lessons with world-renowned musicians.

• Performance Opportunities: The Y.M.B.F. also provides its beneficiaries with public performance opportunities. These are specifically designed to acclimatize them to diverse concert situations, such as: recitals in cathedrals and auditoriums, festival performances, and function-based work in restaurants.

• Career Advice: As the core focus of the Y.M.B.F. is to help young musicians progress to higher education, our advisory patron, Dr Anastasia Belina-Johnson, provides advice and support for our beneficiaries when preparing for their auditions at Universities and Music Colleges.

The Y.M.B.F. currently supports one beneficiary, Arthur Daniel Gonzalez-Jareño Wacey (Artie Gonzalez). Over the next year we intend to identify a second young person who requires support and so forth over subsequent years.

Artie Gonzalez: Artie Gonzalez is a fourteen-year-old musician based in Leeds who during the last six months of tuition has demonstrated exceptional potential as a performer. He is proficient in a number musical forms; however, his principal area of study, is flamenco. In one-to-one lessons, Artie has mastered musical material most students do not encounter until university, as well as demonstrating an aptitude for composition well beyond his years. In June 2014 Artie performed a solo guitar recital at the Leeds Flamenco Festival and attended a guitar workshop with Juan Martín, the internationally renowned flamenco musician. Juan was deeply impressed with Artie’s ability remarking: “He just has a natural talent in his hands.” As a result of this encounter Juan has agreed to offer Artie a place on his international Flamenco Guitar Summer School in Spain. Such invitations to study with a performer of Juan’s standing are not given lightly and Artie’s musical experience would be greatly enhanced by this unique opportunity. Despite his evident talent, the overall costs of the opportunities now open to Artie are prohibitive. The total amount required for Artie to study with Juan Martín, despite discounts, is still substantial, given accommodation and travel

expenses. The Y.M.B.F. is committed to support Artie in being able to attend this once in a lifetime opportunity. In addition, the Y.M.B.F. is currently organizing quality performances to help Artie develop his skills, as well as other opportunities outside of his core (school) education. To see a video of Artie performing, please visit: http://youtu.be/cno4dyv2qrM

Our aims and ethos

What we provide

Our current beneficiaries

Who we are

In order to ensure transparency, the Y.M.B.F. operates a three-tier system of decision-making. All recommendations regarding the initial allocation of funds are the responsibility of our Core Team. An Independent Committee, comprising of individuals with expertise in specific relevant fields, must then review and unanimously approve these decisions. Once this approval is given, an application must be submitted to Arts@Trinity who administers the Y.M.B.F.’s finances allowing funds to be drawn. Arts@Trinity is a charitable company limited by guarantee; it has 12 trustees who meet regularly to administer to the management and finances of the company. The Y.M.B.F. is exclusively to facilitate educational and performance opportunities for its beneficiaries, this will be provided by musicians and organizations that are independent from the Y.M.B.F.’s decision making process. Under no circumstances can any member of the Y.M.B.F.’s Core Team, Independent Committee or Arts@Trinity receive payments from the fund. This system creates a clear separation of responsibilities. In addition to this, further checks and balances have been put in place to ensure all Y.M.B.F. payments are controlled centrally and are in keeping with the aims and ethos of the fund. Under no circumstances can bank transfers be made, or cheques issued to beneficiaries directly. Instead Arts@Trinity will pay the supplier of any service on behalf of the Y.M.B.F.’s beneficiaries. Arts@Trinity is also responsible for keeping a detailed record of all Y.M.B.F. donations and all accounts are professionally audited.

The Y.M.B.F.’s Core Team comprises of two highly qualified individuals who each have expertise in specific relevant fields to the funds work. It is the responsibility of the Core Team to make recommendations to the Y.M.B.F.’s Independent Committee as to whom the fund will support and how this support will be allocated.

Mr Samuel Moore (Founder & Project Coordinator): Samuel Moore is a respected concert recitalist, music tutor, composer and author well practiced in a vast range of traditional and contemporary idioms. Samuel has worked and performed both national and internationally in some of the top classical music venues in the world and his recently published book, The Flamenco Guitar, was nominated for the national award Best Printed Resource in the 2014 Music Teacher Awards for Excellence. In addition to his performance commitments, teaching jobs and published works, Samuel is also heavily involved in professional music management and has worked on management and creative projects involving some of the most eminent musicians of the 20th century, including Juan Martín (flamenco guitarist), Gil Evans (composer) and Kenny Burrell (jazz guitarist). Samuel’s managerial commitments currently include being the Course Leader for Flamenco Guitar Studies at Instituto Cervantes (Spain’s international ambassador for Spanish language and culture) and Director of Music at Arts@Trinity.

Dr Anastasia Belina-Johnson (Advisory Patron): Dr Anastasia Belina-Johnson is an Assistant Head of Undergraduate Programmes at the Royal College of Music and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, where she is also a member of LUCOS (Leeds University Centre for Opera Studies). She is a musicologist, writer, presenter, and opera director. She is the author of Die tägliche Mühe ein Mensch zu sein (Wolke Verlag, 2013), and A Musician Divided: André Tchaikowsky in his own Words (Toccata Classics, 2013). She is co-editor of Wagner in Russia, Poland and the Czech Lands: Musical, Literary, and Cultural Perspectives (Ashgate, 2013). She is currently working on Tchaikowsky’s authorised biography, and is editing a collection of essays Business in Opera with Professor Derek Scott. At the University of Leeds, Belina-Johnson is working with Professor Scott on a research project funded by the European Research Council, entitled German Operetta in London and New York in 1907-37: Cultural Transfers. She is also an International Artistic Director of Koncerty Urodzinowe Chopina and Cultural Consultant for the UK’s leading HE education consultancy Edmission.

Our Core Team

The Y.M.B.F.’s team, structure and decision-making process

The Y.M.B.F.’s Independent Committee comprises of three highly qualified individuals who each have expertise in specific relevant fields to the funds work. Each committee member is deeply dedicated to supporting the arts in Yorkshire and collectively the committee has right of veto over any decisions made by the Y.M.B.F.’s Core Team. No decision regarding Y.M.B.F. patronage can be sanctioned by Arts@Trinity without first being unanimously approved by the Independent Committee.

Dr Carl Vincent (PhD, MMus, FNCM, FVCM, LRAM, PGCE, FHEA, FRS), Principal Lecturer of Classical Music, Leeds College of Music: Dr Vincent studied composition with Philip Wilby at Leeds and privately with Dr Francis Jackson OBE and Sir Malcolm Arnold. His career highlights include the European Brass Band Championship 2006 (Belfast) and Gala night commission for Black Dyke Band: A Night at the Movies. As a testament to his professionalism, Dr Vincent was recently voted Most Inspirational Lecturer 2014 by the students of Leeds College of Music. Dr Vincent is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, a member of the Prokofiev Foundation (Goldsmiths) and a member of the Film Society (Los Angeles). Presently Dr Vincent is writing a book that deals with the harmonic concepts used in music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Mr John Dawson: Director of Arts@Trinity: Though trained as a teacher of English, John Dawson moved on to teaching Business and ICT and eventually became Assistant Vice-Principal, Director of ICT at the David Young Community Academy in 2006. Throughout his career, John has always been interested in the arts and, indeed, organised an arts festival two years running in the early nineties involving twenty-five schools, secondary and primary. John took retirement from education in 2010 and began working with the Holy Trinity Development group to help reinvent the space within the church. In October 2011, John became Director o Arts@Trinity and took up the opportunity to develop the company in a much more proactive way. Over the past three years Arts@Trinity has grown and become a thriving hub for the arts in central Leeds.

Councillor Michael Gibbons: Lord Mayor of Bradford (2014-15): Councillor Gibbons is a member of Bradford Metropolitan District Council (MDC) and also of Ilkley Parish Council, having served on that body for over twenty three years and being its Chairman four times. A campaigner on many local issues and a former school governor, Councillor Gibbons has for the past three years chaired Health and Social Care scrutiny for Bradford MDC. Music is one of Councillore Gibbons great loves, he has organized many concerts and Opera evenings in the district and he is President of the City of Bradford Brass Band. Also, Councillor Gibbons is an active supporter of the Wharfedale Festival of Performing Arts, which is a member of the British & International federation of festivals.

Our Independent Committee

Arts@Trinity is a charitable company limited by guarantee located in Holy Trinity Church, Leeds City Centre. Arts@Trinity administers the Y.M.B.F.’s finances and is responsible for keeping a record of all donations and payments.

Arts@Trinity: Arts@Trinity exists to nurture young, new and aspiring talent in art, drama and music.

The charity is administered by a director who reports to a team of trustees every two months. Minutes of meetings are kept and signed by the chair as appropriate. Arts@Trinity currently has 11 trustees out of 12. A new trustee has just been appointed but not yet added to the Charity Commission website. Trustees are identified and appointed by the Parish of Leeds City.

Arts@Trinity’s charity number is 1132109. Should you wish to find out more about the organisation, please visit the Arts@Trinity website: www.artstrinityleeds.co.uk

To date, signs of good initial funding for the Y.M.B.F are promising and we have received interest from many Yorkshire based businesses, charities and benefactors of the arts. Over the next twelve months we intend to develop this support by creating a long-term donation base. This donation base will help to support our beneficiaries and give them the educational and performance opportunities their skill, hard work and musical maturity deserve. One-off donations: Should you be interested in the Y.M.B.F. and wish to support our work with a one-off donation, this can be done as a bank transfer via our web page: www.artstrinityleeds.co.uk/causes/artstrinity-artist-support-fund/ Alternately, you can donate via the postal service, all cheques should be made out to: Arts@Trinity Ltd. Long-term annual support: You may also become a Friend of The Young Musicians Bursary Fund by supporting us with an annual donation. This donation can be set up as a standing order with your bank and requires you to contact us directly via email (ymbf.samuel.moore@hotmail.com) and fill in a brief form. The different annual donation types are as follows:

• Patron of the Y.M.B.F.: £100 annual donation

• Premium Annual Donation: £50 annual donation

• Deluxe Annual Donation: £30 annual donation

• Standard Annual Donation: £15 annual donation

When setting up this standing order with your bank, it is important to remember to fill in the Quoting Reference on your form. Your Quoting Reference should be laid out as follows: Y.M.B.F. Annual Donation.

In acknowledgment of your generous long-term commitment to the Y.M.B.F., you will receive a by-annual newsletter keeping you up to date with our progress. In addition to this, you will also receive an invitation to our annual Y.M.B.F. Showcase Concert, taking place every September at Holy Trinity Church, Boar Lane, Leeds. Should you wish to support the Y.M.B.F. with an annual donation, please contact us directly by email: ymbf.samuel.moore@hotmail.com

How to support the Y.M.B.F.

Arts@Trinity

In order to be eligible for the Y.M.B.F.’s support, young musicians must be based in Yorkshire and aged between 14 and 18. The Y.M.B.F. is exclusively designed to help young musicians in the musical genres: classical, jazz and world-music traditions. Applications for any other genres will not be accepted. When submitting an application, an indication of parental annual income is essential. It is possible to nominate oneself for Y.M.B.F. support, or make a recommendation on behalf of another. The application process requires the following:

• The submission of a completed Y.M.B.F. Application Form. (In order to be sent the Y.M.B.F. application form please contact us via email (ymbf.samuel.moore@hotmail.com).

• A supporting letter, to confirm the applicant’s story by an independent adult (either their school music teacher or one-to-one instrumental tutor).

• A MP3 recording of the applicant playing. Please note, applicants will not be judged on the audio quality of their recording (it does not have to be of studio quality), a recording made with a hand held recording device or Dictaphone would be sufficient.

Applications for the Y.M.B.F.’s support open annually on the 1st of April and close on the 31st of July. All submissions must be sent via email (ymbf.samuel.moore@hotmail.com), or as a physical submission by post (Samuel A. Moore, Y.M.B.F. Applications, Arts@Trinity, Holy Trinity Church, Boar Ln, Leeds, LS1 6HW). The adjudication process is as follows:

• First Round of Adjudication: Our Core Team will initially assess all submissions for Y.M.B.F. funding. It is the job of the Core Team to select the three most promising submissions to progress through to the second round of adjudication.

• Second Round of Adjudication: The chosen three young musicians will then be invited to meet the Y.M.B.F.’s Core Team and Independent Committee in early September at Holy Trinity Church. During this meeting the chosen musicians will perform a short prepared piece, no more than five minutes in length.

• The Decision: Following the second round of adjudication, the Core Team will make a recommendation to the Independent Committee as to who the Y.M.B.F. will support and how this support will be allocated. The Independent Committee must unanimously approve this recommendation before it is confirmed. Please note, the decision of the Y.M.B.F.’s Core Team and Independent Committee is final and cannot be repealed.

Should you be interested in the Y.M.B.F. and wish to contact us, please do so by any of the below means. Web page: www.artstrinityleeds.co.uk/causes/artstrinity-artist-support-fund/ Phone: 07768963147 (Samuel Moore, Founder and Coordinator of the Y.M.B.F.) Email: ymbf.samuel.moore@hotmail.com Post: Mr. Samuel A. Moore, Y.M.B.F., Arts@Trinity, Holy Trinity Church, Boar Ln, Leeds, LS1 6HW Please note, the Y.M.B.F is an independent charitable fund with a small team of dedicated volunteers. For this reason, we do not operate fixed office hours every day. Samuel Moore (Founder and Coordinator of the Y.M.B.F.) is available for contact on Fridays from 10:00am–3:00pm and all emails will be replied to within one week.

How to become a beneficiary of the Y.M.B.F

How to contact us

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